John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford

John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford (8 September 1442-10 March 1513) was a Lancastrian commander during the Wars of the Roses.

Biography
John de Vere was the son of John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, and he sided with the Lancastrians during the Wars of the Roses. He became a Knight of the Bath in 1465, and he led a short-lived victory against the Yorkists at the Battle of Barnet before the rest of the Lancastrian army was defeated. Oxford was the principal commander of King Henry VII of England's army at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, and he led Henry's troops to victory at Stoke two years later. In 1492, he served in Picardy in northern France, and he crushed a rebellion in Cornwall in 1497. He died in Castle Hedingham, Essex in 1513 at the age of 70.